Slight detour: there's been a lot of noise in social media about wearing jeans past the age of 50. Ha!
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Bottom Stripping
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Shipping weight for a gallon of paint is about 16 pounds. Subtracting the packaging and solvents leaves probably 10 pounds of solids per gallon. On your 25 foot boat that's probably less than 10 pounds per coat, so even if you have many years of buildup that's what, maybe 100 pounds? Plus it's all down low, part of it in the same place as you ballast.
Having said that, a rough, flaking bottom can cause tremendous drag, so by all means go for it if that's the case, I'm just not on board with the weight argument.
I took off about 20 years of buildup with a random orbital vacuum sander. Took about 4 days for a 28' boat, and certainly was no fun, but I didn't have any of the temperature or overnight rain restrictions that chemical peelers do.
50 is rocking the cradle! This post title peaked my interest, Bottom Striping, sounds like fun!
Sam
Pirate Dave, Never an issue. I bring my boat home. Prior to coming home before the bead blast I laid down 10 mil plastic, set the boat, stands and keel blocks on top. Erected an enclosure to contain the spray. Saved all the media bags. Filled them all PLUS 3 heavy duty leaf bags ( the paint basically). No permits, not violations and 100% contained and properly disposed of.
The PO of my little Starwind 19 put Brightside over the entire boat. TotalBoat's Total Strip did an amazing job. I'd roll it on the hull, cover it with wax paper and walk away for 20+ minutes and when I came back it was either soft enough to scrape away or if I waited long enough it would simply fall to the ground. Temperatures for this project ranged from 70-90 degrees. This stripper was low odor but did irritate my eyes sometimes. We also used an orbital sander with a 3M breathing mask for some areas
We used a forklift to get beneath the bunks and a laser to help mask the waterline.
We used a forklift to get beneath the bunks and a laser to help mask the waterline.
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SBO Weather and Forecasting Forum Jim & John
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Clever setup and application of a tool not often thought of with boats, in my experience.
Thanks. The line actually went all the way across the hull but the camera can only catch part of it due to scanning. I own an event production company so we had lots of lights, lasers, projectors and rigging to play with. Since the PO painted over everything I had to take a semi-educated guess at the waterline. I thought long and hard about how to get the waterline straight. The ideas that ran through my head included a projector (curves of the boat wouldve distorted a straight line), string and string with a level. We discovered that the trailer jack was more precise than the cheap projector mount we had the laser on. Stretchable masking tape helped immensely
With the trailerable sailboats, I suggested putting the boat in the water to get a scum mark line on the hull to determine actual water line and then figure for a boot line 1-2 inches above actual water line.
The PO of my boat put Brightside over the ENTIRE boat. Luckily I was able to see the waterline through the paint in some spots. Armed with a laser and sharpie I was able to mask what I believed to be the original waterline. Turns out I got it right or close enough to being right. The gadget did exactly what I wanted it to... Get a straight line regardless of distance